Trump Names Eu A Global Foe, Raps Media Before Putin Summit

HELSINKI – President Donald Trump named the European Union as a top adversary of the U.S. and denounced the news media as the “enemy of the people” Sunday before arriving in Helsinki on the eve of his high-stakes summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Trump and his top aides were downplaying expectations for Monday’s summit as Trump continued to rattle allies by lumping in the EU with Russia and China after barnstorming across Europe, causing chaos at the recent NATO summit and in a trip to the United Kingdom. Trump spent the weekend in Scotland at his resort in Turnberry golfing, tweeting and granting an interview to CBS News in which he named the EU, a bloc of nations that includes many of America’s closest allies, at the top of his list of biggest global foes. “I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade,” Trump said, adding that “you wouldn’t think of the European Union, but they’re a foe.” He said that Russia is a foe “in certain respects” and that China is a foe “economically ...